— I apologize for my recent lack of posting, but it wasn't until Kevin
came outside his house to point out my picket sign misspelled "Wizbang"
that I realized I wasn't actually "on strike." Sorry . . . the latest
topics on the Politics...

— GREAT TEACHERS DO NOT follow a system. They rely on heart and brains
- and they combine these in a way that may make no sense to the outside
observer - except that it's effective.What makes one teacher loved and
the other one hated? Both can follow the same curriculum, the same
lesson pl...

— In Thursday night's debate, defending her vote for the Kyl-Lieberman
amendment - which critics have charged was intended to escalate towards
military confrontation with Iran - Senator Clinton said, "The Ir...

— Where was the Fed a few years ago when Mr Bubble was asleep at the
wheel? He ignored the looming subprime catastrophe and gave the green
light to tax cuts for the wealthy during a supposed war. I guess they
just woke up and read more ba...

— It's Friday which means another episode of our political comedy show
"NewsBusted" has arrived! Topics in this edition: Democrats' Iraq
policy, Hillary Clinton, AOL and more.I'm pleased to announce that
yesterday we hit 1...

— My KSM hypo was really stupid, according to some, because it was so
obviously designed to elicit a “yes” answer that anyone would answer
yes. So what was the point of asking a question that anyone would
answer yes?
Also, the answer is “no” because...

— This is part of the candidate series on MyDD. I'm not part of the
Richardson campaign.In terms of the debate in Las Vegas, I felt
Richardson had one of his strongest performances to date in the race.
Under Bush the CIA has become global paramilitary force operating
prisons i...

— My old friend Dirty Harry (no that is not his real name) is blogging
up a storm over at Libertas. If you are a huge fan of television and
movies like I am, you will love the site. After reading the review of
...

— Here are a couple more hypotheticals for you. At least one of them is
all too real.
Hypothetical #1:
It’s July 2001. You learn that Osama bin Laden has planned a massive
attack on America in which 19 hijackers will take over planes and fly
them i...

— It is one of the better-established findings in psychological
research that the relationship between attitudes and behaviour is not
at all straightforward. That is particularly true when it comes to
predicting behaviour from a person’s racial attitudes and beliefs. For
instance, Left-infl...

— What a proud night for the Federalist Society Thursday night was in
D.C. at Union Station. They had the president of the United States as a
warm-up act. They had three Supreme Court justices. Clarence Thomas was
by far the crowd favorite, but how could he not? Samuel Alito remains
the funniest -- I'...

— Folks, this is QUITE disturbing. I would be SHOCKED if PETA isn’t on
their way to GITMO in those rubber Zodiac(R) rafts with 15 HP motors,
and if they’re NOT, they NEED TO BE, ASAP…
From The New York Times:
Red Cross Monitors Barred From Guantánamo
By WILLIAM GLABERSON
A confiden...

— The transcript is here. The opening questions:
HH: Mike Huckabee's the flavor of the month. He surged up in Iowa. What are the differences between you and Governor Huckabee?
MR: Well, you know, we have the views......

— Vodka Pundit:6:10pm To Hillary: Is it true that you skirt questions?
"Well, that depends on what you mean by 'skirts.'" Seriously, though,
Hillary couldn't even deliver her "asbestos pant suit" gag well enough
to get......

— Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton shined in the presidential debate on
Thursday night, as the leading Democratic candidates traded their
sharpest barbs to date. Biden outlined the most specific foreign policy
agenda, advocating a reduction of Pakistan's military funding to force
fair election...

— This morning I wrote about Daniel Henninger's Wonder Land column and
pointed out a couple of errors. Certainly the worst error was the
column's statement that George Wallace had been "shot dead" in 1972.
The column as printed in the Journal this morning read as it did online
at ...

— 25 years ago, four law students -- Lee Liberman (now Lee Otis),
Spencer Abraham, David McIntosh, and Steven Calabresi -- founded the
Federalist Society. Their goal, in the words of their then faculty
adviser Antonin Scalia, was to "plant a wild flower in the weeds of
academic liberalism." They ...

— (Tonight's selections are brought to you courtesy of the Rescue
Rangers. SusanG)This evening's Rescue Rangers are vcmvo2, Got a Grip,
twilight falling, srkp23, Shayera, Cordelia Lear, and joyful, with
jennyjem as editor.There's quite a list tonight, so without furt...

— The Cambridge Election Commission has had Boy Scout donation boxes
for the troops removed from polling stations because someone called to
complain that they were "too pro-war." So much for the oft-repeated
leftist lie that they "support the troops, but not their mission." From
...

— I will be in Israel for the next week, so blogging may be light
during that time. I will be presenting a paper on democracy and
international human rights law coauthored with Northwestern University
lawprof John McGinnis at ...

— “As an Irish-Catholic kid in the 1980s, I remember being disgusted
with the thugs and the terrorists in the [Irish Republican Army] and I
don’t remember anyone who was Irish-American saying to Tom Clancy after
“Patriot Games”: “How dare you portray people in the IRA ...

— Would it kill CNN to not include partisan supporters of the various
candidates in their post-debate spin?Would it kill CNN to disclose that
James Carville is a partisan Clinton supporter when talking about the
presidential race?Would it kill James Carville to disclose that he is a
p...

— Apparently Hillary Clinton's answer on gender is going to be the most
replayed of the debate. And she did rock that answer.Also, following on
Trapper's point that:Carville is surprised that the "fireworks" were in
the first 12 minutes. (MAYBE IT'S BECAUSE THE EARLY...

— I wish I had anything very trenchant to say about the debate I just
sat through. It seemed to me that no one actually changed the dynamic
of their own candidacies or the cogency of their own arguments. Clinton
will have pleased her supporters, but I doubt she will have won over
any waverers or do...

— Hillary won, as she's still the only one who seems trustworthy one on
national security issues. Obama generally acquitted himself well, but
didn't do well enough to make inroads solely based on his performance.
Edwards angry populism is wearing out its welcome.What Rich said about
Biden. Dodd has re...

— Eurabia inching a little closer to reality…..
Foreign Secretary David Miliband has suggested the European Union
should work towards including Russia, Middle Eastern and North African
countries. He said enlargement was "our most powerful tool&...

— QUESTION: How to overcome partisan divide? And from moderator to
Obama, aren't you attacking Hillary by saying she can't?OBAMA: She can
do it, I can do it better. Wouldn't be running if didn't think was best
suited to overcome this. America must lead by shutting Guanatanamo and
restoring h...

— As soon as the debate wraps up, MyDD Blog Talk Radio will be on the
air live to talk shop about the debate. The call-in number for the show
is (646) 652-2585. You can also chime in via AIM to "MyDDdotCOM". If
you do not use AIM, you...

— The Democrats sort of box themselves in when they retreat to such a
vague formulation, since conservatives can say that they, too, believe
the Constitution protects privacy. Which is true: Several amendments
protect aspects of privacy. But they can't get more specific about what
they mean and hold a...

— At tonight’s CNN Democratic debate, the candidates heard a strong
warning against U.S. military action against Iran from Christopher
Jackson, a Marine who served three tours of duty in Iraq:
I feel that if we continue on the path we’re at, that’s where...

— ...on Social Security: Obama probably wins that exchange. Hillary
didn't have a really good answer for his 6% figure (although you knew
what she meant), and didn't crisply explain what she meant in the
reference to Obama's 'Meet' appearance, when he said he'd gather his
team and consider all options...

— Look, she’s on CNN tonight in the debates.
What do you call it when a person talks about how strongly they’ve made
things work legislatively, despite obstacles that men have put in their
way? Wouldn’t that be the Gender card?
What do you call it, when a person complain...

— Democrat blogger John Cole is appalled that I have opened a debate on
the morality of waterboarding admitted mass murderers for less than
three minutes if it were 100% certain to save thousands of lives. To
express his disgust, he so...

— I am reading across the Internet that I am a torture apologist. That
is inaccurate. Reading comprehension is not a prerequisite for the
Internet. I doubt that anyone making that assertion can point to a
statement of mine that supports the use of torture in real life. I am
open to deb...

— On Thursday, for the second time this week, only the CBS Evening News
-- of the three broadcast network evening newscasts -- gave a few
seconds to new stats from the Department of Defense with good news on
Iraq, this time a 50...

— In my hypotheticals about waterboarding, I have repeatedly said that
my questions are philosophical and moral in nature, and not legal.
Despite my repeated statements, many bloggers and commenters think I am
opining on a legal question. There is no reading comprehension exam
required to blog or...

— But I could swear there was something like, well, absolutely nothing
in the Patriot Act that has to do with profiling at the airport. Oh,
and just to anticipate a discussion later in the night. It doesn't
allow storing waste at Yucca Mountain either. Update: Whoa! Good for
Joe Biden. He just said ...

— Slightly less fabulous, of course, because I am a less fabulous
liveblogger than Trapper John.Next mother of a son in Iraq. Worries
about disparities in wages between military and private contractors and
also whether Bill Richardson is having a happy birthday.Her birthday
wishes thr...

— Judging by the crowd reaction to Hillary's gender answer, the best
way for her to appeal to women is just to remind them that she's
winning. That she's beating 'the boys' is something they'll fill in
themselves, to their delight....

— The people get to ask questions now. Let's see how this goes....That
first question on Iran was great. Both the mother and the son were very
powerful.Did Joe Biden just say the I-word? Yes, he did.Now, Hillary
has to defend her vote for the Iran resolution. Th...

— Jonah, totally with you regarding Richardson. The weird thing is
that, among Democrats, I used to like him. He seemed capable and he had
serious libertarian streak as a Governor. I wonder if he looks in the
mirror and says, 'You know, I used to be kind of cool once.'...

— When we come back from break, here's where we'll talk.No more Wolfie
questions -- citizen questioning in the second half 30%. Wolfie
may be worst moderator yet. Worse than Timmeh, even.
Seriously.Q from soldier's mom - how to lead to prevent Iran war,
to...

— Rich - It's a fair question of who's the bigger braggart. But it
seems indisputable to me that Biden is less of a bore. I look forward
to Biden getting a question, more or less. I watch Richardson and all I
can think is how much I would enjoy watching him spill searing hot soup
on himself. ...

If you want a day off from work because you simply feel a little fatigued and
can't face 8 hours in the office, a fraud note is not the solution. The last
thing you want is for your boss to get curious and to call the phone number
printed on your fake note, after all. If the contact details on the fake
doctors note indicate an out of service phone number, you'll be viewed as a
liar. If the contact details print the phone number of a legitimate medical
clinic, the staff working there (including the actual Dr) will have no idea
what you boss is talking about. Either way, your boss will know you're up to
something. Your job could be on the line, too. Not many things seem more
uncomfortable than going to work for a boss who can prove that you're a liar.
Have respect for yourself and refrain using forged doc notes you find on the
internet (or anywhere else).

Ofcourse Fraud notes can be problematic because they force you to put on a show for
others, too. If you use a fake slip from a dr that says you have pneumonia,
you'll have a difficult time faking the illness. If you fail to fake the
illness, you'll have no choice but to stay hidden inside all day. That can be a
real pain. The whole point of a day off from work is to feel free. If you're
forced to stay indoors or to put on a show faking illness when you're out,
you're hardly free. Many
websites provide people with free templates and forms they can use as scam slip from physicians. Although printing out and using these notes seems simple
enough, the actions come with a lot of potential downfalls.